Better ask ten times than go astray once.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.